Monkeying around with Code and Paying it Forward

Author: Amanda Dobbyn

This is a story (mostly) about how I started contributing to the rOpenSci package monkeylearn. I can’t promise any life flipturning upside down, but there will be a small discussion about git best practices which is almost as good :nerd_face:. The tl;dr here is nothing novel but is something I wish I’d experienced firsthand sooner. That is, that tinkering with and improving on the code others have written is more rewarding for you and more valuable to others when you contribute it back to the original source.

Read the full post here: https://ropensci.org/blog/2018/04/20/monkeydo/